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Bebop Jazz Master
Remembered
(AP) — Max Roach, the m aster percussionist
whose rhythm ic innovations and improvisations
defined bebop jazz during a wide-ranging career
w here he collaborated with artists from Duke
Ellington to rapper Fab Five Freddy, is being
rem em ber after his death last week at the age o f 83.
Roach received his first musical break at age 16,
filling in for three nights in 1940 when Ellington's
drummer fell ill.
Roach's perform ance led him to the legendary
M inton's Playhouse in Harlem, where he joined
lum inaries Charlie Parker
and Dizzy Gillespie in the
burgeoning bebop m ove­
m ent. In 1944, R oach
jo in e d G ille s p ie an d
C olem an Hawkins in one
o f the first bebop record­
ing sessions.
W hat d is tin g u is h e d
Roach from other drum ­
m ers were his fast hands
and ability to sim u lta­
neously m aintain several rhythms. By layering
different beats and varying the meter. Roach
pushed jazz beyond the boundaries of standard 4/
4 time. His dislocated beats helped define bebop.
Roach's innovative use o f cym bals for melodic
lines, and tom -tom s and bass drums for accents,
helped elevate the percussionist from mere tim e­
keeper to featured perform er — on a par with the
trum peter and saxophonist.
"One o f the grand masters of our music." Gil lespie
once observed.
Ina 1988 essay inThe New York Times, Wynton
M arsalis wrote o f Roach: "All great instrum ental­
ists have a superiorquality o f sound, and his is one
o f the m arvels o f contem porary music. ... The
roundness and nobility o f sound on the drum s and
the clarity and precision o f the cym bals distin­
guishes Max Roach as a peerless master."
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Memory
Peggy Lee Young
Peggy Lee Y oung died peace­
fully early Sunday m orning Aug.
12, 2(X)7 in her northeast Portland
hom e at the age o f 52.
She was born Peggy Lee R ob­
erts in St. Louis, M o., the daughter
o f R iceG lenn R obertsand M ildred
Elizabeth Roberts: and joining her
sister Patricia Ann Sims and brother
Richard G lenn Roberts.
In 1958, the fam ily m oved to
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m inded single mother.
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m e n ts; th e re w as n o th in g she
co u ld n 't handle. She becam e a su­
p e r v is o r se c o n d in c h a rg e at
M eyers Court Q uad, Inc., once
again proving her strength and
perseverance in life and in the love
o f her family.
A fter 17 years in charge o f health
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man resources for the State o f O r­
egon as a case manager, where she
did w hat she w as known for, ex ­
ceeding expectations and touch­
ing people’s lives through truth,
love and food.
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spiration, m otivator and strength
to her family and now 17 grandchil­
dren.
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ten, Peggy Lee Young was called
hom e but her daughters will carry
her nam e on.
A m em orial service was held
Tuesday, Aug. 2 1 at Heaven Bound
D eliverance C enter in northeast
P ortland. S ervices en tru sted to
Terry Fam ily Funeral Home.
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